LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 383, March 15, 1976

[ LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 383, March 15, 1976 ]

TREATMENT OF EMPLOYEES WITHOUT AUTHORIZED POSITIONS IN P.D. NO. 733

TO: Commissioner of the Budget Chairman, Commission on Audit All Heads of Departments, Bureaus and

Agencies of the Government and Government Owned and or Controlled Corporations

WHEREAS, there is a substantial number of employees in the personnel roster of various departments, agencies and certain government owned and or controlled corporations not included in the respective approved staffing patterns under the Integrated Reorganization Plan but are still being paid their salaries because of the suspension of the implementation of the reorganization of said offices;

WHEREAS, the situation creates an atmosphere of uncertainty contrary to the intents and purposes of the Integrated Reorganization Plan.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, do hereby order and direct:

That the respective agencies should not fill existing vacancies without giving preference to the said employees in the filling of existing vacancies from a master list of laid off personnel as required in LOI No. 77, dated May 25, 1973;

That no new employee should be hired by any Agency without a certification of the Chief of Office and attested by the Civil Service Commission to the effect that there are no qualified eligibles from the existing pool; and

That all employees not absorbed by December 31, 1976 be retired under existing retirement laws.

Done in the City of Manila, this 15th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines

ANNEX "A"

Department

No. of Employee

Total Annual Salaries

Office of the President ................................................................................... 324

P2,548,503

Commission on Population ................................................................... 239

National Media Production Center ....................................................... 5

Philippine Ports Authority ..................................................................... 80

Department of Agriculture ............................................................................. 17

155,196

Department of Finance (BIR only) ................................................................. 155

649,500

Department of Health .................................................................................... 118

650,289

Department of Justice .................................................................................... 226

724,573

Department of Local Government and

Community Development ..................................................................... 2

28,578

Department of Labor (NMYC only) ............................................................. 3

10,270

Department of Natural Resources .................................................................. 12

44,484

Department of Public Works, Transportation

and Communication .............................................................................. 920

3,742,670

Department of Social Welfare ........................................................................ 136

511,196

Department of Trade ..................................................................................... 66

418,913

Department of Education & Culture ............................................................... 1,223

5,360,870

National Science Development Board

(FNRC only) ....................................................................................... 1

3,521

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TOTAL ............................................................................................... 3,370

P14,848,963

Corporation-Agencies not

Authorized in PD No . 738

Agricultural Credit Administration ................................................................... 8

P53,880

CEPOC Industries, Inc. ................................................................................. 73

325,706

Home Financing Commission ......................................................................... 86

556,872

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Total ................................................................................................... 167

P936,458

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GRAND TOTAL ................................................................................. 3,370

p15,785,421

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